They're two separate issues. Business method patents purely claim methods of doing business. Software patents claim the invention of new machines, they're a subset of traditional patents, and do not overlap with business method patents. Software patents are almost always framed as a machine which carries out the algorithm or process as to be patentable the invention must be more than a mathematical formula acting on itself.
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They're two separate issues. Business method patents purely claim methods of doing business. Software patents claim the invention of new machines, they're a subset of traditional patents, and do not overlap with business method patents. Software patents are almost always framed as a machine which carries out the algorithm or process as to be patentable the invention must be more than a mathematical formula acting on itself.